[Coco] splitting the screen

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 20:02:03 EST 2010


On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Wayne Campbell wrote:

> Does anyone on the list understand OS-9 windowing enough to give me a 
> clue as to how to split a screen? What I need is to be able to have 
> everything the user types show up in one part, and all other output to 
> the screen in the other, something liike this:
>
> +-----------------+
> |this is where all|
> |output goes      |
> |                 |
> +-----------------+ <- what happens above does not go below this separator
> |user input here  |
> +-----------------+

This is exactly what curses excels at.  Does the version currently under 
development by Willard Goosey make use of the OS-9 intrinsics, or does it 
manage a full-size screen by itself?

Steve


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